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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Anderson, Amanda
• Shaw, Harry E

Titel

Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to George Eliot, 2013, p.442-456

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The existential problematic of living theory becomes, in Eliot's oeuvre, a broadly secularizing project that includes conscious awareness of personality as enchantment. In analyzing Eliot's keen awareness of the difficulty of the moral life, this essay does not aim to contribute to a sense that Eliot's project is suspect or productively undermined in its core aims. A conception of living doctrine informs Eliot's own investments in the possible effects of narratorial personality on the reader. Equally problematic is the use of the power of personality to impose doctrines that should be reflectively endorsed. To avoid both problems, but also to bring theory to life, Eliot projects through her heroic protagonists versions of what might be called the proximate visionary, the second‐generation idealist, the reader and interpreter, as a way to simultaneously acknowledge and mediate the relation between doctrine and personality.